The Weekly Marmot - Gear vs Skill

This week I take a stab at the ever-popular Gear vs Skill debate. Which is more important? Can an undergeared player really outperform others just by the virtue of their own ability? Or is WoW really just a game of numbers, and whoever has the bigger ones wins?

Commentaire de HoleofArt

Commentaire de CodisJ1286

The entire time I was imagining hilarious noob info-graphics to help explain the thresholds.

Good topic ... info-graphics one day?

Commentaire de Alkony

on 2011-03-22T19:29:20-05:00

Your ranch containers continually move around.

I think those were Sweet and Sour or BBQ sauce, since the tops were orange-ish. Ranch is green topped. (Kinda scared I know that.)

I wonder how many people will have no clue what "Wimbledon" is. :p

Lore, excellent run down of when gear matters more and when skill matters more. I think the grey area is why the debate seems to be never ending.

Commentaire de Ironfungus

on 2011-03-22T19:30:31-05:00

75% gear, 25% skill. That's the name of THIS game.

Commentaire de Gremlock

on 2011-03-22T20:15:31-05:00

Gearscore is like a Bikini. What it reveals is suggestive, what it conceals is vital and what it does is generally distracting

Commentaire de cleanerkiller5

on 2011-03-23T00:25:04-05:00

Gearscore is like a Bikini. What it reveals is suggestive, what it conceals is vital and what it does is generally distracting

truer words have never been spoken.....

Commentaire de TickleMeThrall

on 2011-03-23T13:12:45-05:00

Gearscore is like a Bikini. What it reveals is suggestive, what it conceals is vital and what it does is generally distracting

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Commentaire de urcle

on 2011-03-23T14:16:47-05:00

blizzard games are based on gear

its not to say that skill doesn't matter, but its just how the games work. the whole game is based on getting better gear whether in pve or in pvp. why would it be set up like that if gear didn't make you perform better?

Edit: its really really simple.

Commentaire de Alkony

on 2011-03-23T15:50:59-05:00

blizzard games are based on gear

its not to say that skill doesn't matter, but its just how the games work. the whole game is based on getting better gear whether in pve or in pvp. why would it be set up like that if gear didn't make you perform better?

Edit: its really really simple.

Way to completely miss the point of the show.

Skill is most important at the upper and lower bounds of gear potential, is what Lore was saying. -At the low end, you're just starting endgame content and have low gear, so you must have a basic level of skill to even survive. You have to compensate for your low gear with skill.-At the top end, gear is maxed out and you CANNOT improve gear (until the next tier is released). At this point the only thing that can be improved is skill.

Sometimes gear is more important, sometimes skill is. More clear?

Commentaire de sanjiyan

on 2011-03-23T18:33:26-05:00

i found that skill is more important in every case, except one irrealistic case : when you somehow manage to reach that theorical limit your gear has.I've yet to see someone going even close to it...

On the other hand i've done such things as tanking a raid boss with a tank bearly over 120k hp fully buffed/flasked, half of the gear in greens.Was it hard? YesDid it require use of all CDs, including heals and DPSers ones ? YesBut it is possible.

Commentaire de Interest

on 2011-03-23T22:35:04-05:00

Gearscore is like a Bikini. What it reveals is suggestive, what it conceals is vital and what it does is generally distracting

Been there, seen that.

Commentaire de Avonderre

on 2011-03-24T09:34:06-05:00

Your ranch containers continually move around.

I think those were Sweet and Sour or BBQ sauce, since the tops were orange-ish. Ranch is green topped. (Kinda scared I know that.)

Lore likes Hot Mustard on his Nugs!-quoted from Legendary

I'm going to assume thats what those containers are =)

Gearscore is like a Bikini. What it reveals is suggestive, what it conceals is vital and what it does is generally distracting.

What an awesome and interesting way to put it. Who can't relate to a bikini in some way? lol

Personally, I've always believed that gear can be changed, tweaked, upgraded, etc. but skill can't always be taught.So in my mind, skill is more important to have, but this is just my personal opinion.

Commentaire de lambert1994

on 2011-03-27T20:58:34-05:00

the whole topic of gear is so much more than skill it total crap, i personally have managed to tank a cata raid in mostly ilevel 333 gear and a couple of 346 items in there but the main problem was my legs i was still wearing redsteel leggings which are 316 greens and i was managaing to nick aggro off the main tank which was a blood DK in almost full epic gear, so in my opinion skill is far more valuable than gear. :)

Commentaire de nuckingfutz

on 2011-03-27T21:27:03-05:00

I love how he takes twelve minutes and twenty four seconds to explain the concept... and yet people still miss the point entirely.

/facepalm

Commentaire de Lalikos

on 2011-03-28T00:51:56-05:00

Gearscore is like a Bikini. What it reveals is suggestive, what it conceals is vital and what it does is generally distracting